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UK star manager announces launch date for new fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... leading UK-listed retail platform Hargreaves Lansdown and a A£3.6 billion ($6.5 billion) mandate from wealth manager St James's Place. The funds low fees have also attracted attention in the UK press. Woodford Investment Management chief executive Craig ...

Industry funds must learn from banks: Equip

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
Industry funds must learn from banks on areas such as customer relations, branding and diversifying their offerings beyond super if they are to access retail members and build their member bases, according to Geoff Brooks, executive officer of strategic ...

Cbus answers CFMEU leak allegations

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
Industry fund Cbus has said the disclosure of member information to 'sponsoring organisations' is allowable under certain circumstances, followingA reports that it improperly supplied members' contact details to the Construction, Forestry, Mining and ...

State Street appoints new Australian exec

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
State Street has appointed Chris Taylor as its new head of global services and global markets for Australia. Taylor will replace Ian Martin, who is taking up a position in Hong Kong as head of State Street Global Markets and State Street Global Exchange ...

BNP Paribas signs up to TARGET 2

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
BNP Paribas has announced it will be a 'directly connected participant' of the TARGET 2 Securities (TS2) settlement program. The TARGET 2 - which stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement express transfer system - is an initiative ...

SuperStream savings 'nowhere near' estimates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
SuperStream is not delivering the member value for money that was its intended result in the Cooper Review, according to VicSuper head of employer relations Dean Pearce. Pearce said that, in order to differentiate itself in the employer market, VicSuper ...

Equip to launch pension version of MySuper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
Superannuation fund Equip will launch a retirement phase version of MySuper, called 'Equip MyPension', on 1 July this year, chief executive Danielle Press has revealed. The product is designed to be a default pension fund for members in the MySuper ...

PROFILE: Actuaries Institute CEO David Bell

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... painting actuaries as the 'rock stars of the 21st Century'. FourA months into the role, new chief executiveA David Bell tells James Fernyhough what heA hopes the campaign will achieve. Variety has been a constant in David Bell's life. His incarnation ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... Metals was 3.5 cents weaker at $4.765. Construction materials companies were weaker, with Boral down 18 cents at $5.34, James Hardie down 35.5 cents at $13.745 and Fletcher Building 27 cents weaker at $8.63. April's Australian Industry Group/Housing ...

ISA and FSC prepare for Federal Court clash

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
A Federal Court face-off between the Financial Services Council (FSC) and Industry Super Australia (ISA) looks likely over the Fair Work Commission's (FWC) involvement in workplace superannuation. The FSC yesterday lodged an application with the Federal ...